Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 523280 225092024 2008-07-11T21:00:38Z RussBot 279219 Robot: fix links to disambiguation page ([[WP:DPL|you can help!]]) {{Infobox Book | name = Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:Bury my.JPG|250px|Cover to a later paperback edition: 1991 paperback edition]] | image_caption = Cover to a later paperback edition: [[1991]] paperback edition published by [[Vintage (publisher)|Vintage]]. ISBN 0-8050-6669-1 | author = [[Dee Brown (novelist)|Dee Brown]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = [[United States]] | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | subject = [[United States History]], [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] | genre = | publisher = New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston | release_date = [[1970]] | english_release_date = | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]]) | pages = 487 | isbn = ISBN 0030853222 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} :''This article is about the 1970 book by Dee Brown. For the 2007 film of the same name, see [[Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film)]]. "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" is also the title of a song by [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]] and is the name of albums by both Gila and Yoriyos.'' '''''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee''''' by American writer [[Dee Brown (novelist)|Dee Brown]] is a [[history]] of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] in the [[American West]] in the late [[nineteenth century]], and their displacement and slaughter by the [[United States federal government]]. It was first published in [[1970]]. The title is taken from the final phrase of a 20th-century poem titled "American Names" by [[Stephen Vincent Benet]], although the poem was not actually about the Indian Wars. The full quotation, "I shall not be here/I shall rise and pass/Bury my heart at Wounded Knee," appears at the beginning of Brown's book. ==Content== Chapter by chapter, this book moves from tribe to tribe of Native Americans, and outlines the relations of the tribes to the U.S. federal government during the years [[1860]]-[[1890]]. It begins with the [[Navajo people|Navajos]], the [[Apache]]s, and the other tribes of the [[American Southwest]] who were displaced as [[California]] and the surrounding states were settled. Brown chronicles the changing and sometimes conflicting attitudes both of American authorities such as General [[Custer]] and Indian chiefs, particularly [[Geronimo]], [[Red Cloud]], [[Sitting Bull]], and [[Crazy Horse]], and their different attempts to save their peoples, by peace, war, or retreat. The later part of the book focuses primarily on the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes of the plains, who were among the last to be moved onto reservations, under perhaps the most violent circumstances. It culminates with the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]], the deaths of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and the [[Wounded Knee Massacre|slaughter of Sioux prisoners]] at [[Wounded Knee, South Dakota]] that is generally considered the end of the [[Indian Wars]]. ==Success of the book== Time Magazine reviewed the book saying: :"In the last decade or so, after almost a century of saloon art and horse operas that romanticized Indian fighters and white settlers, Americans have been developing a reasonably acute sense of the injustices and humiliations suffered by the Indians. But the details of how the West was won are not really part of the American consciousness ... :"... Dee Brown, Western historian and head librarian at the University of Illinois, now attempts to balance the account. With the zeal of an IRS investigator, he audits U.S. history's forgotten set of books. Compiled from old but rarely exploited sources plus a fresh look at dusty Government documents, ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' tallies the broken promises and treaties, the provocations, massacres. discriminatory policies and condescending diplomacy."<ref name=time-review>{{cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909793,00.html |title=The Forked-Tongue Syndrome |author=Sheppard, R.Z. |date=[[1971-02-01]] |accessdate=2007-05-01 |publisher=[[Time Magazine]]}}</ref> One strength of the book is its strong documentation of original sources, such as council records and firsthand descriptions.<ref>{{cite news |first=N. Scott |last=Momaday |authorlink=N. Scott Momaday |title=A History of the Indians of the United States |work=[[New York Times]] |page=BR46 |date=[[1971-03-07]] |quote=It is first and foremost a compelling history of the Old West, distinguished ... because it is so carefully documented and designed. }}</ref> Despite its wide acceptance by journalists and the general public, scholars were critical of the book, pointing out that much of the material, outside of direct quotations, was not sourced; that content was selected to present a particular point of view, rather than to be balanced; and that the narrative of government-Indian relations suffered from not being placed within the perspective of what else was occurring within the government and the country at the time.<ref>Prucha, Francis Paul, "''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' Review," ''The American Historical Review,'' vol. 77, no. 2, (Apr., 1972), pp. 589-590.</ref> Remaining on best seller lists for over a year in hardback, it was still in print 35 years later. Translated into at least 17 languages, it has sold nearly four million copies and is available as a Google book<ref name=google>{{cite web |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=f8OUEU4s0JQC |title=[[Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee]]|author=Brown, Dee |accessdate=2008-03-06 |publisher=[[google]]}}</ref> ==Popular culture== *The [[1992 in video gaming|1992 video game]] ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time]]'' included a [[American Old West|wild west]] level named "Bury My Shell at Wounded Knee". *The ''[[FoxTrot]]'' collection that includes the [[comic strip|strips]] where the family vacations at the fictional "Fun-Fun Mountain" [[amusement park]] was titled ''[[List of FoxTrot books|Bury My Heart at Fun-Fun Mountain]]''. *[[Buffy Sainte-Marie]] recorded a song of the same title accounting key elements of the US' opposition towards Native American culture. The [[Indigo Girls]] have since covered this song. *[[The Cult]], in their song "Horse Nation" on their [[Dreamtime]] album, has based its lyrics on quotations from the book. *[[Five Iron Frenzy]] based the song "The Day We Killed" from their [[Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo]] album on the book. *[[The Four Seasons Of Wounded Knee]] is the generic title for a series of dramas by [[Ralph Morse (actor)]] * The book is shown briefly in the 1999 [[Jim Jarmusch]] film [[Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai]]. * In 2008 the [[United Kingdom|British]] band [[Uriah Heep]] released an album called "[[Wake the Sleeper]]" that included the song "What Kind of God", inspired by the book. ==Film Adaptation== [[HBO Films]] produced a [[Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film)|film version]] of the book for the [[HBO]] television network. The film stars [[Aidan Quinn]], [[Adam Beach]], [[Anna Paquin]], and [[August Schellenberg]] as [[Sitting Bull]]. The film debuted on the [[HBO]] television network Sunday, May 27, 2007. The film received many [[Emmy]] nominations and went on to win Best Movie made for Television. == References == {{Reflist}} ==See also== *[[Wounded Knee Massacre]] [[Category:1970 books]] [[Category:Histories of the American Old West]] [[Category:Native American history]] [[Category:Books about Native Americans]] [[it:Seppellite il mio cuore a Wounded Knee]] [[fi:Haudatkaa sydämeni Wounded Kneehen]]